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One person has died and more than a dozen were taken to a hospital with injuries after high winds blew over a beer tent near Busch Stadium.

ST. LOUIS

1 dead when weather collapses tent at bar

One person has died and more than a dozen were taken to a hospital with injuries after high winds blew over a beer tent near Busch Stadium. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that the man who died suffered a heart attack during the commotion when a sudden storm blew through around 3:50?p.m. yesterday after a St. Louis Cardinals baseball game. The tent was set up next to Kilroy’s Sports Bar, where St. Louis Fire Chief Dennis Jenkerson said a few hundred people had gathered. Emergency officials said 16 people were taken to hospitals.

SAN BERNARDINO, CALIF.

Minor quake rattles southern California

A magnitude 4.1 earthquake struck southern California yesterday but there were no reports of damage, authorities said.The temblor hit at 8:07?a.m. about 50 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, the U.S. Geological Survey said.Ruben Rodriguez, a notification controller with the California Office of Emergency Services, said local media had reported that the quake rocked some buildings, but no damage or injuries had been reported.

FOUNTAIN HILLS, ARIZ.

Sheriff’s backers rally against profiling probe

As many as 200 activists, some chanting “go Joe, go Joe,” rallied in Arizona yesterday to support Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who is facing a federal racial-profiling investigation for his police sweeps against illegal immigrants.Earlier this month, the Obama administration said it was preparing to sue Arpaio and his department “for violating civil-rights laws by improperly targeting Latinos.”The sheriff has denied any wrongdoing and lashed out at the federal government for targeting his department while failing to confront the more than 11?million illegal immigrants who live and work throughout the nation.STATE COLLEGE, PA.

Forecasters predicting average hurricane season

The Atlantic will have an average hurricane season this year, with 12 named storms, according to AccuWeather Inc.AccuWeather’s outlook is more robust than those of several other forecasters, including Colorado State University researchers, who have called for a below-average year with 10 to 11 storms.The typical June 1 to Nov. 30 season produces 12 systems with winds of at least 39 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami.AccuWeather predicts five storms will become hurricanes with winds of at least 74 mph and two will grow into major systems with winds of 111 mph or more.

TOKYO

Vessel sets record for undersea drilling

A research vessel with the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology set a record for the deepest undersea research drill, reaching a depth of 7,740 meters, or 4.8 miles, in waters off Miyagi Prefecture, the agency said.The Chikyu, a 56,700-ton deep-sea research vessel, broke the record of 7,049.5?meters set by a U.S. vessel in the Mariana Trench in 1978.The Chikyu was at anchor about 137 miles off Oshika Peninsula, Miyagi Prefecture, to research the focal regions on the seabed around the Japan Trench, which is thought to have generated the huge tsunami on March 11, 2011, the date of the magnitude 9.0 earthquake.

— From wire reports

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